If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
